Hans Ulrich Treichel

"Lost walks us into what we think is familiar territory and then suddenly turns all our expectations upside down." "An ordinary German family flees from the advancing Russian army in 1945, makes it to safety, and starts over, painstakingly building a new life in the postwar economic miracle. But in the refugee trek west there was a victim, and that victim was the firstborn son, Arnold.". ""Arnold isn't dead. He didn't starve, either," is what the little brother, the narrator of this story, is finally told by his parents when he is about eight years old. "I was only just beginning to understand that Arnold, my un-dead brother, had the leading role in the family, and had assigned me a supporting part." The search is on. Finding lost Arnold is his parents' dream. It is the little brother's nightmare."--BOOK JACKET.

Albert is a German man searching Italy for love and only finding lovers. Of course, he isn't sure what love really is; he is just romantic. He returns to Germany and discovers Elena, a Sardinian waitress. When she returns to Sardinia he follows her there, with hopes that his dreams will be fulfilled.

Paul aime Berlin. Pour lui, vivre dans un logement sur cour un peu sinistre à Kreuzberg, c'est toujours mieux que de mourir d'ennui dans sa Westphalie natale. Mais la vie fait régulièrement trébucher Paul, que ce soit dans sa modeste carrière universitaire ou sur la plage nudiste du lac de Grunewald. Lors d'un séjour à Malaga, il rencontre Maria, une jolie Espagnole dont il s'éprend. Malheureusement, Maria est mariée, enceinte même, et quand Paul quitte Malaga pour retourner à Berlin, ses mots d'adieu mal compris ne vont pas lui simplifier les choses. Sous la plume acérée de Treichel, les tribulations d'un anti-héros des temps modernes et son histoire d'amour pleine de chausse-trappes deviennent un plaisir de lecture irrésistible de drôlerie